We’ve been doing these real estate videos for a few quarters, and we’re having a lot of fun with them.* Keep in mind that the data and numbers we reference were up to date as…
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Crozet Real Estate Market Report – Looking at 2015 & 2016
Our experiment continues. David and I love to talk about real estate. We thought the Crozet Real Estate Conversation series would be a good place to talk about real estate and share some of our thoughts and insights about life in Crozet & the Crozet real estate market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYIpqxmUmQ&feature=youtu.be
Crozet’s 3rd Quarter Market Update
I’ve been wanting to do this sort of thing for years. I love real estate and love talking about real estate. While my business is focused on the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the Central Virginia…
Talking about Real Estate over Coffee (in Crozet)
A colleague and I are going to be doing an experiment in the coming weeks and months in Crozet. David and I are going to be talking about real estate – in person, in coffee shops,…
Learn the Crozet Real Estate Market in 8 Minutes
Anyone who knows me knows that I love to talk about real estate. If you’re curious about the Crozet real estate market, please spend a few minutes watching this conversation about the Crozet market with my Nest colleague and friend, David Ferrall.
The life of a community blog – RealCrozetVA
Community.
A friend wrote some time ago that part of finding success is to give a sh*t.
Giving a sh*t is hard. But it’s rewarding and meaningful. This post? Not about real estate, other than that a tremendous component of “real estate” is community.
Just over nine years ago, I started RealCrozetVA with a simple goal -“to provide a forum for Crozet to (hopefully) discuss their thoughts about Crozet’s growth.” At the time of the blog’s inception, Crozet was smaller, Old Trail hadn’t yet begun, the new Crozet Library was still being designed, and there was palpable concern, and questions, about what was happening.
In the past nine years, a lot has changed. Facebook and Twitter, for example, didn’t exist. Now those channels have become major components of the RealCrozetVa communication voice. I’ve never spent the time to figure out a “strategy” per se, but some things are more appropriate for Facebook, some for Twitter, and I’ve started a “recently on facebook” category on the blog to archive the conversations there.
Two thoughts on the changing technology – 1) I wish I’d done a better job of archiving photos of Crozet. 2) One of the constants in this journey has been WordPress.
The Crozet Gazette launched a few years ago and has provided consistently great reporting, something I’m just not going to do.
Charlottesville Tomorrow started and is awesome.
I added a calendar component some time ago, but last year spent the money on a plugin that’s made the calendar much, much more functional, enabling community members to add events on their own.
I’d love to be able to make some changes to the design (like add an “add to calendar” button) but that’s likely to not ever happen by me.
But really? The “success” of RealCrozetVA is thanks to the community’s involvement, their comments, likes, replies, etc.
Have I “gotten business” from RealCrozetVA? Maybe, but that’s never, ever, been the goal. I occasionally write about the Crozet real estate market (46 posts in 9 years – about 3% of the time), merely as a reminder that I do happen to earn a living as a real estate agent.
One thing that is absolutely critical is Blue Ridge Internetworks who provide the hosting and support for RealCrozetVA for free. Thank you. (I’d get their fiber to my house if I could)
I’m grateful for the community in which I live, and hope to continue writing about it for some time.
* I’m always looking for guest posters, though!
Quick Look at Crozet (and Albemarle) Real Estate Assessments
I was curious about what assessments were doing in Crozet so I did a quick look. If you’re curious about background, context and methodology, please read the full post at RealCrozetVA.